MEMORANDUM
FROM: BC'04 POLICY DEPARTMENT
1. KERRY: "DESTROY TERRORIST NETWORKS"
- The United States has waged two wars since September 11, taking away terrorists' foreign operating bases and liberating fifty million people from two of the world's most brutal and aggressive regimes.
- Of the senior al Qaeda and associated leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the United States has been tracking, more than two-thirds have been detained, captured, or killed.
2. KERRY: "PREVENT NUCLEAR TERRORISM"
- President Bush spearheaded the establishment of the G-8 Global Partnership, which over 10 years will provide $20 billion in nonproliferation and weapons reduction assistance to the former Soviet Union.
- The United States is working with its allies and the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that Iran meets its commitments and does not develop nuclear weapons.
- Together with its partners in Asia, America is insisting that North Korea completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear programs.
3. KERRY: "CUT-OFF TERRORIST FINANCING"
- We have frozen more than $142 million in terrorist-related assets, designated 383 individuals and entities as terrorist supporters, apprehended or disrupted key terrorist facilitators and deterred donors from supporting al Qaeda and other like-minded terrorist groups.
- President Bush has secured two UN resolutions regarding terrorist financing and worked with more than 170 different countries to have blocking orders freezing an additional $72 million in terrorist assets issued.
- The 9/11 Commission determined that: "The government has recognized that information about terrorist money helps us to understand their networks, search them out, and disrupt their operations."
4. KERRY: "PROTECT THE HOMELAND"
- To improve border security, more than 1,000 border patrol agents have been added, and remote video surveillance and unmanned aerial patrols have been increased.
- Today, all cargo entering the US is screened, and 100 percent of high-risk cargo is physically inspected.
- Aviation security has been improved by hardened cockpit doors, more air marshals, stricter baggage checks and canine teams are now positioned at every major airport to search for explosives.
- The President has partnered with chemical facilities to enhance security and supported legislation to require minimum security standards.
- President Bush signed into law Project BioShield, an unprecedented, $5.6 billion effort to develop vaccines and other medical responses to biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological weapons.
- The President's 2005 budget reflects a 680 percent increase in funding for first responders since September 11th.
5. KERRY: "DENY TERRORISTS SAFE HAVENS AND NEW RECRUITS"
- In March 2002, President Bush announced the Millennium Challenge Account, which proposed a 50 percent increase in America's core development assistance by 2006 and tied this record increase in aid to political, legal, and economic reforms in the recipient countries. The Millennium Challenge Account provides the largest increase in US development assistance since the Marshall Plan.
6. KERRY: "SUPPORT DEMOCRACIES IN THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD"
- President Bush has proposed doubling the budget of the National Endowment for Democracy to focus its new work on the development of free elections, free markets, free press, and free labor unions in the Middle East.
- To cut through the barriers of hateful propaganda, the Voice of America and other broadcast services are expanding their programming in Arabic and Persian, and a new television service is providing news and information across the region.
7. KERRY: "RESTORE ALLIANCES TO COMBAT TERRORIST NETWORKS ACROSS THE GLOBE"
- The 9/11 Commission judged that international cooperation in the War On Terror is now "on a vastly enlarged scale."